Bob Leonard

CEO & President

Bob Leonard serves as Glytec's Chief Executive Officer and also as President of the company’s Board of Directors. Bob has over 25 years' experience in healthcare, serving in various general management, senior sales and marketing positions. His background encompasses information technology, hospital information systems, point-of-care devices, disease management and alternate site services. Previous employers include PatientKeeper, a provider of physician healthcare information systems which grew from zero to 450 hospital clients during his tenure; McKesson Information Systems; FluidSense (IV /fluid management) and Chartwell, a series of academic medical center partnerships focused on alternate site care. Bob has a proven track record of developing and leading high quality, high performance teams in fast-growth companies. In his present role, as in several previous, Bob is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic vision of the company and more importantly, ensuring the company's culture is driven by an unwavering focus on the success and improved health of the hospitals and patients it serves.

John Beneke

Chief Financial Officer

John Beneke serves as Glytec's Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining Glytec in 2012, John was the Chief Financial Officer for M.M. Dillon & Co., a boutique investment bank in Greenwich, CT. Prior to that, John spent 22 years at Morgan Stanley & Co. He was a Managing Director in the Finance Division supporting the Institutional Securities Business. John has held multiple senior operating roles, with experience in Institutional Equity, Capital Markets, Fixed Income Derivatives, and Investment Banking. He has also served a 2 year tour of duty as Head of Investor Relations. John is a Certified Public Accountant, and holds an M.B.A. degree from Rutgers University and a B.A. from Dickinson College.

Robby Booth

SVP Research & Development

Robby Booth serves as Glytec’s Senior Vice President of Research and Development, facilitating the company’s innovation programs, patent inventions and FDA clearances as well as multiple partnerships with vendors of complementary technologies. He has nearly 20 years of experience in developing and commercializing disruptive solutions. Robby was one of Glytec’s founding employees and has been instrumental in advancing the company’s solutions for diabetes therapy management, including new models, algorithms and software-as-a-medical-device products for personalized digital therapeutics. He is an inventor of more than 15 issued and allowed U.S. and international patents. Prior to joining Glytec, Robby was Vice President of Product Development at CoMed, where he was integral in building and managing design controls and overseeing activities to ensure compliance with medical device regulations.

Melanie Mabrey

DNP, ACNP-BC, BC-ADM, CDTC, FAANPVP Clinical Practice

Melanie Mabrey serves as Glytec’s Vice President of Clinical Practice. Melanie is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner whose clinical practice and scholarship focuses on chronic illness, particularly in endocrinology and diabetes mellitus. Melanie previously served on the faculty of Duke University School of Nursing as an assistant professor, teaching primary care and diabetes in the nurse practitioner program. She has extensive clinical experience in care of the chronically ill patients. Since 2002 her practice has focused extensively on inpatient diabetes management at Duke University Medical Center, Division of Endocrinology. She established and served as the director of their Inpatient Endocrine Nurse Practitioner Program. In 2006, she started a new endocrine/diabetes service at Duke Regional Hospital and went on to serve as the associate medical. Melanie’s doctoral project, publications, and numerous local, regional, national and international presentations focus on care of patients with diabetes across the continuum of care particularly inpatient management. She earned her BSN from East Carolina University in 1993 and her MSN from the University of South Carolina in 2001. She earned the Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from Duke University in 2012, with her doctoral project: Continuous Intravenous Insulin: An Evaluation in Bariatric Patients Outside of the Intensive Care Unit, published in Bariatric Nursing and Surgical Patient Care Journal. Melanie was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau in 1992, is a member of the North Carolina Nurses Association, the American Diabetes Association, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist, and was honored to be inducted as a Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners in 2014.

Raymie McFarland

VP Quality Initiatives

Raymie McFarland serves as Vice President of Quality Initiatives, a role in which he has directed or otherwise participated in more than 60 studies involving use of Glytec’s solutions, all of which have been published in medical journals and/or presented at scientific conferences. Raymie has more than 20 years of experience articulating the benefits of innovative, quality-oriented tools, technologies and processes to clinicians, administrators and senior executives at healthcare organizations throughout the country. Prior to joining Glytec, Raymie was President and Co-Founder of Mantra Healthcare Solutions. Earlier in his career, Raymie worked for many years at Sanofi, one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, where he was instrumental in developing multiple programs aimed at improving the care of patients with diabetes, including industry-recognized quality improvement processes for inpatient glycemic management and transitions of care. While at Sanofi, Raymie received several national quality awards for inpatient programming, leadership and medical projects. Raymie has certifications from Society of Hospital Medicine, CMS Readmissions Programming, and Telehealth Remote Monitoring as well as Quality Lean Processing, Six Sigma, and Quality Institute.

Megan Pietropaolo

Chief Legal Counsel

Megan Pietropaolo serves as Glytec’s Chief Legal Counsel. Megan has 13 years of experience representing companies in the health care and technology sector. Prior to joining Glytec, Megan was Senior Legal Counsel at PatientKeeper where she oversaw the legal operations of the company and its merger with HCA. Megan was also an attorney at Gunderson, Dettmer, Stough, Villeneuve, Franklin & Hachigian, LLP where she represented a broad range of companies in the areas of corporate partnering, strategic alliances, intellectual property and technology protection, privacy, advertising, and licensing and commercialization of intellectual property and technology assets. Megan is a graduate of Syracuse University and William & Mary Law School.

Scott Rape

VP Client Development

Scott Rape serves as Glytec’s Vice President of Client Development. Scott has amassed more than 20 years of experience selling and marketing information technology solutions to the healthcare industry. His experience in this space includes senior sales and management positions with some of the industry's leading software companies such as Multum Information Services, where Scott played an integral part in Cerner Corporation acquiring Multum in 1998. Scott spent 5 years with Cerner before returning to his entrepreneurial roots joining PatientKeeper, Inc., in 2004. Scott systematically grew the Western Region of United States for PatientKeeper by more than 800% during his nine-year tenure. Scott was responsible for many of PatientKeeper's early adopter clients who went on to pave the way for enterprise agreements with some of the nation's largest health systems.

Andrew Rhinehart

MD, FACP, FACE, CDE, BC-ADM, CDTCChief Medical Officer

Dr. Andrew Rhinehart currently serves as Chief Medical Officer of Glytec. Prior to joining the company in 2015, Dr. Rhinehart was in clinical practice for 20 years. He served for seven years as Program Director and diabetologist at Johnston Memorial Diabetes Care Center in Abington, Virginia, which is part of Mountain States Health Alliance, the region's largest health system with 13 hospitals. He also served as Physician Champion for the health system’s Inpatient Glycemic Control Initiative. Dr. Rhinehart received his doctorate degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his residency at East Tennessee State University. Although trained in internal medicine, Dr. Rhinehart was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology based on his expertise in the field of diabetology. He is a current member and past chair of the American Diabetes Association’s Primary Care Advisory Group, and has served previously on their Professional Practice and Prevention Committees. Dr. Rhinehart was the first physician board certified in advanced diabetes management (BC-ADM); he serves as a content expert for the BC-ADM Exam and sits on the BC-ADM Exam Oversight Committee. He is also a Certified Diabetes Educator and Certified Diabetes Technology Clinician. Dr. Rhinehart has been awarded recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance Diabetes Physician Recognition program for providing high quality care to persons with diabetes from 2002 until leaving clinical practice in 2015. He participated on the 2012 and 2017 National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support revision workgroups.

Bob Salitsky

Chief Technology Officer

Bob Salitsky serves as Glytec’s Chief Technology Officer. Bob brings more than 25 years of experience with infrastructure software, mobile applications and Internet technology development to Glytec. Prior to joining Glytec, Bob was Vice President of Engineering at Advanced Practice Strategies where he built an innovative, patented e-learning platform that assess clinicians' knowledge and judgment and delivers prioritized, personalized learning content. Prior to joining APS, Bob was CTO of inStream Media where he rapidly built a technology platform to launch inStream's targeted retail POS advertising business that has delivered over 3 billion targeted ads and counting to consumers. Prior to joining inStream, Bob was Vice President of Engineering and CTO of PatientKeeper where he led development teams in designing and developing best-in-class physician information systems, from initial product architecture and development to successful nationwide implementation. Bob also served as Vice President of Engineering at HighPoint Systems and as Senior Technologist for Vicinity Corporation. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Sciences and Computer Science from Dartmouth College.